Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Catholics Mimic Bush Cronyism in Boston

BostonGlobe: Father Walter Cuenin, the outspoken pastor of a large parish in the Boston suburbs, has been replaced by an insider crony of Bernard Cardinal Law, the archconservative ex-archbishop of Boston who had been forced to resign due to his extremely sloppy handling of priest sex abuse cases. Law subsequently wound up with a sinecure in Rome. (Didja catch that? Law was a big f-ck up, let rampant wrongs go unchecked, was rewarded w/ primo Vatican spot. Sound familiar? George Tenet, 9/11, "slam dunk" on Iraqi WMDs, get medal from Bush. Mike Brown, really bad horse judge, really bad FEMA director, "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job!") It turns out that Cuenin had been a longstanding target of the right, and attacks against him in rightwing blogosphere heated up after he publicly indicated his acceptance of MA's legalization of gay marriage. One right-wing blog linked to a report of his resignation under the headline "This is fun." Yeh, ripping away parishioners' beloved tolerant priest on completely trumped up grounds... oh yeh, that's fun... especially when the new priest speaks to an empty church b/c the parishioners are fed up, huh? B/c heaven knows, we can have a tolerant man of God, now can we?
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